I recently talked to an eighteen-year-old - a huge FIFA fan - and realized that he spends more time playing the FIFA video game than he does watching actual FIFA games.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.