Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.
There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.
Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.
If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.
God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary. . . .
The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.
I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth. . . our death.
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.