I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.