What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

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

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Everybody counts or nobody counts

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.