Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

I actually like football a great deal.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this." I think it's natural.