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.

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

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.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

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

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.

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.