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.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

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

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

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.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

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.