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.

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.

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

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

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.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.