In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.