"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed."

“Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions”

“A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.”

“I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.”

Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

“I had a very old woman come up to me on the subway and tell me that the faces that I made in the first episode when a guy is going down on me, that she still makes those faces when her husband goes down on her.”

“Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Take the gun. Leave the cannoli.”

“Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.”

“I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.”

Source : "Interview Michael Phelps" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2004.