"I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality."

“Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.”

“It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.”

“No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.”

“My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.”

“I have a high tolerance for discomfort.”

“I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it”

“Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.”

Source : Marcus Borg (2012). “Speaking Christian: Recovering the lost meaning of Christian words”, p.103, SPCK

“Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books