The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

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

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

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.

Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like to talk about the good sides of ourselves. We don't like to talk about our hatreds, our distrusts of one another, our secrets, but crime stories drag those things to the surface and consequently they fascinate people and always have throughout all history.

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 would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.