Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

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

No one man is superior to the game.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

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.

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

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Go to hell, I'm reading!

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I’m already thinking glamour.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.