From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds to...

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They h...

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

Cookie? he offered, holding up a cookie full of chocolate chips.Upset tummy or not, there was no way I could refuse that. Sure.His lips tipped to one side and he leaned towards me, his mouth inches fr...

Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months....

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

And I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

You may seek out a partner who psychologically resembles your mother and found that you have walked right back into a difficult relationship. Perhapse you chose to be close to someone who turns out to...

Is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of thes...

Warmth spread down my neck.It's actually, and not blah or whatever.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

One by one the flowers close Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.