My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.

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

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.

I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.

And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.