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.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

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

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.

My main income came from failed movie and TV options.

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

Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.