-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.

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.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.