Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

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 exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this." I think it's natural.

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

I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.