I've used pseudonyms for various reasons. In my earliest days I was writing too much, and needed to shift some of the product over to other front men… - Donald E. Westlake

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

The cops are after me, I'm on my way to join an organization of lunatics and bombers, I'm wired for sound, my necktie turns into a smokescreen, my handkerchief will make you throw up, my Diner's Club card explodes, I'm the leader of a subversive terrorist organization composed entirely of undercover federal agents, newspapers all over the country are saying I killed my girl, and I'm on my way to meet a twenty-five-year-old Nazi built like Bronco Nagurski. If relaxed means limp, don't worry about it. I'm relaxed. I'm relaxed all over.

I believe my subject is bewilderment. But I could be wrong.