Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.