A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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

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