I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

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

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

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

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

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

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.