Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.