“I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.”

“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'”