The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.