What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
I have written a considerable amount – both fiction and nonfiction – about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people – a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
I’d done occasional short stories, but I don’t like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I’m lucky if I can open one in three minutes, three seconds. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn’t end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn’t fish, they didn’t know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming. In fact, they never had a good harvest until they learned to fish cod and plow the waste in the ground as fertilizer. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
