Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
“But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.”
“I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.”