David Murrell

“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini."

Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle, on which he had recently embarked. "Really?"

"Runners on first and second," Rick said. "I bet he wants you to bunt."

"What's the bunt sign?"

"Two tugs on the left earlobe," Henry told him. "But first he has to give the indicator, which is squeeze the belt. But if he goes to his cap with either hand or says your first name, that's the wipe-off, and then you have to wait and see whether--"

"Forget it," Owen said. "I'll just bunt.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion”
― Francis Bacon

“You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.”
― Herman Melville