Why On Earth Should I Care Whether

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.

Everybody's Weird, Fundamentally Everybody Is A Snap. Sometimes It's A Sexual Thing And Sometimes It's A Different Kind Of Weirdness, But One Way Or Another Everybody's Nuts.

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.

Serendipity. Look For Something, Find Something Else, And Realize That What You've Found Is More Suited To Your Needs Than What You Thought You Were Looking For.

It's The Easiest Thing In The World To Know God's Will. You Just Wait And See What Happens, And That's It.