"Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments."

“I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.”

“The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.”

“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”

“I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can be conceptualized, but I don't think he goes so far as to deny that it doesn't involve different responses to all the discriminable surfaces.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

“It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.”

“In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.”

“Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.”

Source : "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

“We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.”