Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.