In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

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.

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

For 41 years I have gone with a very natural hair "look" that was originally popularized by coconuts.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask whether your country has been inhaling paint-thinner fumes.

For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.