...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.