I love sports. Whenever I can I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports I drop him.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story whether in print orating writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.