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

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.

It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.

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.

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

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?

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