[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be..

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

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can hap….

Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the wo….

Read, read, read, read and then read some more..

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 f….

My main income came from failed movie and TV options..

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike..

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 profoun….

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 ther….

Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word….

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a ….

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 ….

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 blan….

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players..

If you build it, he will come..

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game..

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me..

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time..

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did..