A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.