Though I didn't play, it was nice to be wanted. It was a good experience overall, getting to see how read more

Though I didn't play, it was nice to be wanted. It was a good experience overall, getting to see how other organizations work.

We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little read more

We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.

It keeps getting bigger and better each year, and keeping Macon is in the equation.

It keeps getting bigger and better each year, and keeping Macon is in the equation.

It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.

It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.

It (first game) could have been different, you never know.

It (first game) could have been different, you never know.

You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, read more

You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, some good, overall football things.

Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think read more

Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think the clock stopped for Sara Lee in 1995.

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General read more

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is read more

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.