Opinions, from experts, cost money.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.