My mother insisted that her children read.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.