Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

Here’s a random factoid: I like cats. And here’s another: I like red wine.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.

Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.