He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.
“There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.”
“I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.”