He bats like a lightning rod.

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

The Great Gatsby, the finest novel ever written.

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.

I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.