"Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing."

“It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.”

“The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.”

Source : Dahr Jamail (2016). “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”, p.239, Haymarket Books

“You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.”

“Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.”

“We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.”

“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”

Source : Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

“The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.”

“I love that old glamour look. I think it's because I grew up on it.”