"I remember going to Shibe Park, Connie Mack, when I was a kid with my dad and my mom. I felt more neighborhood-esque. And I like the idea, and I love the new downtown ballparks. I love when the venue is situated in a vibrant part of the urban setting."

“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Peter L. Bernstein Classics Collection: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, The Power of Gold and Capital Ideas Evolving”, p.321, John Wiley & Sons

“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.445, Macmillan

“The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in”

“You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.”

“Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.”

“Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.”

“Being in love is totally punk rock.”