Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

Three of the principal cast members of 'Outlander' have come out publically for 'Yes': Sam Heughan, Graham MacTavish and Grant O'Rourke. And the 'Yes' proponents are on fire: idealistic, hopeful, inspired by the idea of change and of democratic self-determination.

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.

Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.