I Do Not Take Any Pleasure Whatsoever

Sit Around The Bars, Talked To People, Ate In The Restaurants, And Chatted With The Old Ladies On The Street. Fishermen Are Pretty Much That Way.

I Just Go To Lunch. And I Never Know When Something Is Going Into The File And Something Is Not.

The Germans And Austrians Are Very Polite, The Swiss Are Very Reserved And The Spanish Usually Kiss Me. The Brits Write Me Letters.

I Was Extraordinarily Lucky. I Wrote A Book Because I Wanted To See If I Could Write A Mystery. Someone Nagged Me Into Sending It To A Contest, Which It Won, After Which I Was Offered A Two-book Contract, Thus Requiring The Writing Of A Second Book.

All Through Graduate School, Instead Of Having A Television I Read Murder Mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.