I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.