I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
Bill JamesTelevision is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspective and tried to think through a few of the real questions that this sometimes unseemly business raises.
Bill JamesIt's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
Bill JamesThe business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
Bill JamesHow 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.
Bill JamesBecause 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.
Bill James