I actually like football a great deal.

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.