If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
From H. G. Bissinger
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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 presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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.
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 reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
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 Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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.
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