As a sophomore I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages sometimes I write them in a column sometimes in a novel sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside just playing sports.

I liked the game I enjoyed the game and the game fed me enough and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing and that I could possibly make a priority in my life versus other sports.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running you don't need a particular place like in tennis just a pair of trainers.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing to do something in the political-commentary arena.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

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.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

I do feel like I have always in my life been inclined to be on the outside walk a different path or something. Because of that and increasingly over the years my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works I have a different kind of perception of it.

I think every artist should follow their vision their hearts is what they need to reveal not something that society is looking out for.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Watching people just look out for themselves I think is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society how it operates and how that reflects their so-called betters.

In this I-me society my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot and you see the local news and they give box-office reports.

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Up until now the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance that they want to toss into the garbage can.

As a creative person you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation for want of a better word of mundane things.

But hey when you live in Watts you need a little smack to get by you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

In much of society research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin but of course society demands something more than this.