You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Can't complain because nobody listens.