I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.