Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate read….

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

My wife says, "You're an idiot! Why do you Google your name and all you're doing is looking for trouble?" Because I'm thin-skinned. Because I don't l….

Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time..

I actually like football a great deal..

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 fram….

I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained ….

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

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

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall S….

I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endles….

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong..

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 ….

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is pres….

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have pa….

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to th….

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ….

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them….

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..

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

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else..