When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.