I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.”