I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.
Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.
I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.