David Todd McCarty

“I’VE WRITTEN MEMOIR FOR YEARS now in spite of a poor memory. Maybe because of my poor memory.”
― Abigail Thomas, Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing

“So much for objective journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a gross contradiction in terms.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson

“A baseball beat writer once warned me that covering baseball every single day will cure you of your love of baseball, quick.”
― J.R. Moehringer, The Best American Sports Writing 2013: Selected by Pulitzer Winner J.R. Moehringer from 350+ National Publications and Blogs

“Detail is the antidote to boredom, and tends to keep depression at bay.”
― Abigail Thomas, Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing