Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Love is the wild card of existence.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.