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.
A. Bartlett GiamattiThis 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.
A. Bartlett GiamattiFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. Bartlett GiamattiAll 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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti