If I lived here, I'd be here every day. It's a magnificent golf course.

The oil price factor is the joker in the pack. Regardless of the type of aircraft, if oil prices dodge ahead, it will depress demand for air travel.

I've been running since I was a little kid. My longest run this year was 30 miles. It was the day before the Boston Marathon. I called it Ken's Marathon.

We just finished up a few houses in November.

We go and be nice and light. After all, it's their last days.

I think by and large, people understand that bird flu is an ailment that affects poultry, and it is almost impossible for humans to get it. You've got to be in direct contact with bird feces and feathers and so on, and in a farming and wet-market situation, and that doesn't apply to 99.9 percent of tourists.

He'd come up and hit you and you knew it was him. He was a born leader who didn't holler, but when he talked, they listened.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

Many a good story has been found in the bottom of a decent Rioja.