When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life.
Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.
Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.
The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.
Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.
When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.