Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.