Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it read more

Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it would take 10 years. And that's just the way it is.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look read more

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern read more

Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

He's never committed any acts in the United States.

He's never committed any acts in the United States.

It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But read more

It was disappointing. I love being a baseball player. I love the city. I loved being a Red Sox. But it's a business. They do what they do to benefit the team.

She'll be in every episode.

She'll be in every episode.

They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them.

They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them.

It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about read more

It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about the problems in scheduling, but we try not to make a big deal of it. It's something we don't talk about.

We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.

We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.