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.

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.

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

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.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

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