American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach American Copy Share Image
“3. There are three stages. Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being. 33. Do not confuse the first and third stages. Thoughtless… — Chad Harbach Stages Copy Share Image
Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny… — Chad Harbach Believe Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of… — Chad Harbach Form Copy Share Image
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What… — Chad Harbach Ask yourself Copy Share Image
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much… — Chad Harbach Book Copy Share Image
“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.… — Chad Harbach Education Copy Share Image
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are… — Chad Harbach Amusing Copy Share Image
“It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could… — Chad Harbach College life Copy Share Image
“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address,… — Chad Harbach Classmates Copy Share Image
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so… — Chad Harbach Day to day Copy Share Image
I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of… — Chad Harbach Ballplayer Copy Share Image
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could… — Chad Harbach Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort… — Chad Harbach Education Copy Share Image
“Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section… — Chad Harbach Curves Copy Share Image
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the… — Chad Harbach Books Copy Share Image
“Why would anyone want to fight Henry?" Loondorf looked hurt. "Because he's a ballplayer." "So?" "So he's a baller. He's got cash,… — Chad Harbach Bar-fights Copy Share Image
