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

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Television is a young person's medium.

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

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.