After the first couple of weeks, we were about 10 places up from last. We weren't really thinking anything about first place.

We pulled into first three days before the game ended.

I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.