..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery.

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will

So much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.

The sweetest little song: You go your way I'll go your way too!

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

I don't even hate books anymore.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

There's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret

I don't want to be a star, merely dying.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.