If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

Decadence is wonderful.

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

I write novels and other things.

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.