Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
John FowlesWe can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
John FowlesOne of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true
John Fowles