Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

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.

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

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

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

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.