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.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

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

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

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.