Dave

“It might be flawed,' my dear friend answered. 'That doesn't matter. We all need something to believe in and it's the best thing we have. The entire world is a better place when we call all dream about the US.' God Bless America”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“Thanks also to the Chicago Bears, the Chicago White Sox, the Washington Capitals, the Tulane Green Wave, and, above all, Everton Football Club, for providing me with sporting narratives that accompany my existence like a joyous bass line. For all of them, glory is a precious, rare emotion. I appreciate that as a reflection of life itself. Never take a second for granted. Make memories while you still can.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“With that vote the 1960s took their final turn, not to the polarization of left and right--though during the NIxon years there were moments so divisive reasonable people feared that the nation was coming undone--but to a bitter, often brutal struggle between an administration determined to reconstruct the order the decade's upheavals had shattered and those forces the shattering had released: a struggle for the nation's future shaped by the enormous weight of aits past, as the rest of the sixties had been.”
― Kevin Boyle, The Shattering: America in the 1960s

“Love is hard. Love between one person and another: That is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home