You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.