Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.