For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.