"More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves."

“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

“When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

“I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.”

“Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.501, Ballantine Books

“Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.”

“But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.”

“Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.”