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

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 the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

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 sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, I never wanted this. I think it's natural.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

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

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.

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

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

I actually like football a great deal.

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

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

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 to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

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

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 endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

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