Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea..

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody..

I don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!.

I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was jus….