CoachJim

“Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding of events, he always knew that he would make it through, as long as when he woke in the morning he was looking forward to his first cup of coffee. Only decades later would I realize that he had been giving me a piece of advice.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”
― Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

“Slurring is the cursive of speech...”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”
― Mat Johnson, Pym