Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

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.

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