To Go From Yale To The National

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.

Baseball Has Undergone And Absorbed A Whole Set Of Dislocations.

A Tremendous Social Responsibility Comes With Being A Successful Public Performer.

You Count On It, You Rely On It To Buffer The Passage Of Time, To Keep The Memory Of Sunshine And High Skies Alive, And Then, Just When The Days Are All Twilight, When You Need It Most, It Stops.

The Gods Have Fled, I Know. My Sense Is The Gods Have Always Been Essentially Absent. I Do Not Believe Human Beings Have Played Games Or Sports From The Beginning Merely To Summon Or To Please Or To Appease The Gods. If Anthropologists And Historians Believe That, It Is Because They Believe Whatever They Have Been Able To Recover About What Humankind Told The Gods Humankind Was Doing. I Believe We Have Played Games, And Watched Games, To Imitate The Gods, To Become Godlike In Our Worship Of Eachother And, Through Those Moments Of Transmutation, To Know For An Instant What The Gods Know.