The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Nora Roberts is cool.

The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.