I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager.
When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away.
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.