“Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist...” — Rosecrans Baldwin Quote

“Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.”

“About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.”

“I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.”

“As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.”

“In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.”

“It's the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world, but at the same time, my job is to go out and win a game.”

“You go to the Super Bowl in your second year and you're like, 'OK, cool. I'll be back next year or the year after that.'”

“It's such a great feeling, knowing you're going to the Super Bowl.”

“Though little known in the U.S., the Dakar is a sports juggernaut in Europe, where France's state broadcasting company runs more than 25 hours of coverage, and the leading drivers and riders are accorded the same status we give to Super Bowl quarterbacks.”

“When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?”

“Whenever you make the Super Bowl, so many things - you have to have the good general manager and the coach and the great players, and you have to have not too many injuries - everything, game plans and everything, has to fall very much your way for that to happen.”