Bill James

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.