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

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

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

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.

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.