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

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.

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.

Doesn't love have to be tested by reality and time, or else isn't it only a dream?

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists.

You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.