No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

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