Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.
It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.
