Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.