I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

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

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

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.

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

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.