The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

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

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

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.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.