Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

It is only when you lose your wings, you really learn to fly. Its when the sense of loss, becomes the driving force.

As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10, 000 hours to become world-class at.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.