I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

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.

I actually like football a great deal.

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.

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.

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