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

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

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

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

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

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

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.