Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

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

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

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

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.

The professionals must set a good example.