A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.