Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

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

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.

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

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.

Have never been a minor league fan.

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