Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

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

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.

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