"Very early in our relationship my wife gave me a first edition of Steinbeck's 'Cannery Row,' my favorite novel of all time. It's the book that taught me to write with forgiveness and humor toward my characters and I'm eternally grateful for that lesson."
"Cervantes illustrates the folly of chivalry and romance, while being entertaining and lyrical, and, I think, showing that there is value to aspiring to nobility of spirit."
"It's a very funny epistolary novel set in the 1940s, about a kid who keeps writing to a baseball player on the New York Giants, pretending to have different diseases."
