“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”

“There are seven and a half billion people on this earth - somebody's got to get sucked into a vortex.”

“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck”

“Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.”

“...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.”

“Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige.”