Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

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.

The places where trails do not exist are not well marked.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.