Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I always write the best that I can. And I won't publish it until I have done it right.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as important as his words.