Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Everybody counts or nobody counts

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.