Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.

Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.''There is a long road yet, ' said Gandalf.'But it is the last road, ' said Bilbo.

This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.

Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, "What for"?

I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

I was a gymnast for years.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.