The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.