The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or… …or tap him on the shoulder.

Dinner Special - Turkey $2.35; Chicken or Beef $2.25; Children $2.00

Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease. England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.

For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'