Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.