"No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty"

"He has committed the crime who profits by it"

"To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it"

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings"

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"