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

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.

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

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

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

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

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