But what is life if you don't live it?

I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.

What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will die From great fire in the sky. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go." (Total) Call me old fashioned but I'll take 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' any day.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.