I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to….

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct..

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example..

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same wit….

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard..

(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years..

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing..

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing t….

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!.

A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the othe….

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and se….

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws..

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it ….

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth….

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers..

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed..

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve..

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like….

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment. It's an interesting phenomena and I tried to put it in perspectiv….

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal wit….

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men ….