"I want to bottle-fuck you slowly with my sunglasses on."

"You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."

"It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there."

"Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others."

"Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave."

"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

"You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up."

"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold."

"If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball."

"Praise behaviour that you want repeated"

"Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise."

"Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play."

"You should just do the right thing."

"If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me."

"If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot."

"I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual."

"As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something."

"You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it."

"The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it."

"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."