Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.