One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

It was some of Solomon’s favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn’t expected to dance to it.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

Faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and charity - those are the tools God gave me. Ad I keep circling around it.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.