Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

I always react to news immediately. That's my business.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.