Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

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.

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

Have never been a minor league fan.

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.

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