...aware, As Always, That The Truth Isn't

People Sometimes Get In The Habit Of Being Loyal To A Mistake.

By Ignoring A Lot Of American Culture You Can Write More Interesting Stories. Unfortunately, If You Were Writing About America As It Is, You'd Be Writing About A Lot Of People Sitting In Front Of Television Sets.

People Often Ask Me How I Make Things Funny. I Don't Make Things Funny.

I Looked Back At Some Of My Earlier Published Stories With Genuine Horror And Remorse. I Got Thinking, How Many Extant Copies Might There Be, Who Owns Them, And Do They Keep Their Doors Locked?

One Of The Nice Things About Our Marriage, At Least To My Way Of Thinking, Is That My Wife And I No Longer Have To Argue Every Thing Through. We Each Know What The Other Will Say, And So The Saying Becomes An Unnecessary Formality. No Doubt Some Marriage Counselor Would Explain To Us That Our Problem Is A Failure To Communicate, But To My Way Of Thinking We've Worked Long And Hard To Achieve This Silence, Lily's And Mine, So Fraught With Mutual Understanding.