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

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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

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.