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.

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.

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

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

If you build it, he will come.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.