I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence even if only for an instant.

Before I pitch any game from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series I'm scared to death.

Like many of you I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows ' which I followed avidly as a kid.

For electronica music David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain which is pretty cool.

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series The Dark Ages which are really cool.

To me there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut sent up as assistant to a series of computers found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule man is still in charge.

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is it makes the series limited you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.