I smoked for many years like a total idiot.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

In its current incarnation in my life touring is a lot of airports and hotels and car services and only OK food.

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.