Johnny Carson

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.