I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

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

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.