"There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't."

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.146, Open Road Media

“I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.”

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

“Lahm is a scandal. He is super-intelligent, understands the game brilliantly, knows when to come inside or to stay wide. The guy is f****** exceptional”

“Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.”

Source : "Manhattan rhapsodies" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

“You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.”

“If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.”

Source : Comment at Computer Virus Conference, 1992.

“These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.”