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.

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.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

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

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?

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.