Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.

When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

Is it OK not to be a virgin, yes. Most people aren’t virgins, Min. That’s why there’s people to begin with.