I Don't Plan An Awful

Donald Westlake's Parker Novels Are Among The Small Number Of Books I Read Over And Over. Forget All That Crap You've Been Telling Yourself About War And Peace And Proust-these Are The Books You'll Want On That Desert Island.

The Short Story, I Should Point Out, Is Perforce A Labor Of Love In Today's Literary World; There's Precious Little Economic Incentive To Write One.

As My Late Mother Famously Observed, The One Thing To Be Said For Growing Old Is That Every Year There Are A Few More Things I Don’t Have To Give A Rat’s Ass About.

One Aspect Of Serendipity To Bear In Mind Is That You Have To Be Looking For Something In Order To Find Something Else.

Dangerous Thing, Giving Humanity The Knowledge Of Good And Evil. And The Capacity To Make The Wrong Choice More Often Than Not.