"It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions"

“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”

“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”

Source : Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.”

Source : "A long column about the length of movies" by Eric Snider, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

“The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.”

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

“We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.”

“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”

“Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.”