Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

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.

There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.

I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.

But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.