"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return."

-- Gustave Flaubert

“Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
“I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.”
“I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.”
“I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.”
“You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.”

Source : "The 13 Best Sports Documentaries" by Brandon Latham, www.indiewire.com. August 13, 2014.
“I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.”
“Michael Koryta isnâ€™t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. Heâ€™s simply one of todayâ€™s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.”
“The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.”

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