Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.