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

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

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.

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

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.

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