Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you’ll be left with nothing. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
Both for Havana’s beauty and decay, it’s very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it’s threatening you with. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can’t learn much of anything about anyone from an interview. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don’t you miss Tyson. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home. Brin-Jonathan Butler Read Quote
