“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”

“Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”

“It is hard to provide proof of love. And yet love undeniably does exist. It is only that humans fail to recognize it when and where it does.Unbeknownst to me at the time, the world was overflowing in love...and now I live at last in the midst of that flow...”

“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes . . . but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies.”

“A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded them”

“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.”