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

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.

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.

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

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

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.