Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes.

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

I am a family person and also very emotional by nature.

I've learnt music, since this is a part and parcel of growing up in a traditional Tamil Brahmin family. In fact, I've even given three exams in music when I was young.

My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.