I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.
Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.
The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses.
I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.
Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.
I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
