I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.

My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.