The Key To Thrillers Is Vicarious Pleasure.

La Has A Fantastic Car Scene And Because The Climate Is So Gentle, Cars Can Last Forever.

The Most Sustained Feat Of Imagination In Mystery Fiction Today.

This Was Like July 13th, 1943, The Pivotal Day Of The Battle Of The Kursk. We Were Like Alexander Vasilevsky, The Soviet General. If We Attacked Now, This Minute, We Had To Keep On And On Attacking Until The Enemy Was Run Off His Feet And The War Was Won. If We Bogged Down Or Paused For Breath Even For A Second, We Would Be Overrun Again.

I Had Been Coming To America Very Frequently For Many, Many Years, So I Had Plenty Of Exposure - And Maybe The Best Kind Of Exposure, Because I Think First Impressions Are Very Important. Maybe I Notice Stuff That Is Just Subliminal To People Who Live Here All The Time.

To Fill A Small Bag Means Selecting,and Choosing, And Evaluating. There's No Logicial End To That Process. Pretty Soon I Would Have A Big Bag, And Then Two Or Three. A Month Later I'd Be Like The Rest Of You.