The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.