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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.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
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Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
