Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.