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Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.

Thrilling, thrilling to see yourself on a baseball card for the first time.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I'm a big baseball fan, and I love the Cards.

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.