“We hope we’re better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can’t just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!

I don’t know why we play better on the road. I really don’t. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don’t think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you’d like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

There is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages …

Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: ‘As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month,

There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought.