Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.