Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.