"It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends."

"I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party."

"Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too."

"I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed."

"You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you."

"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."

"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way."

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."