Reading... a vacation for the mind.

She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Eventually everyone has to die, except Elvis.

With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.