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.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

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.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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.

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.