I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.