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

The professionals must set a good example.

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.

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

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

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.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.