But there is a deeper part of it, a yearning for some kind of centeredness, a feeling of mindfulness, making the world a better place as opposed to contributing to its demise.

It's the idea that what you're buying reflects who you are, what your values are. It's not overtly political ... [but] it's someone who has sort of hippie values with a yuppie pocketbook.

People have been seeking out spirituality forever. And I think we live in a very consumerist and market-driven country. So it makes sense that the two would sort of collide in this way.

Our bullpen is definitely deeper (than last year), ... Guys like Chad Qualls and Dan Wheeler were kind of feeling out what roles they would have, but they established early in the season that they would be legitimate late-inning guys.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.