It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.