If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

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

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.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.