I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

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.

In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.

If you build it, he will come.

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

After the strike, I lost interest. In reality, neither players nor owners care in the least about the fans. The greed of both factions has destroyed baseball's credibility, at least for the present.

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