I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.
I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.
It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.
It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.
I couldn't kill a fly.
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.
The bat is not a toy, it's a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.