Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.