We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.

Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

Even in a city like Barcelona, there are still some people in the city who are angry because that waterfront area is a big tourist destination, and all the rents went up, and they had to move.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

I never expect a soldier to think.

You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

I gave up before birth.

You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.

[Donald] Trump November 2016 could truly be the long-awaited wake-up call America desperately needs.