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

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.

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

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.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.