Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.