"You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,"

“Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.”

“Football is more important to me than money right now.”

“It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?”

Source : "Quitting the N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, the Money Wasn’t Worth It" by Ken Belson, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2013.

“I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.”

“I'm not a centerfold.”

“Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.”

Source : Interview With Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

“There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.”

“To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.”

Source : The Observer, August 08, 1965.