All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

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.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

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