I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.