After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.

Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.

Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.

Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.

I would say healthcare in Vietnam is so-so. There are several international clinics that are good but expensive and the care offered is limited.

For the most part Ho Chi Minh City is safe but like any large city you need to pay attention to what's going on around you.

Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.

I'm divorced and have a son and a grandson and it is a problem being away most of the time. Living as I do, if I had a wife and children I think it would be really hard to do.

My home address is a small apartment in Fair Oaks, California but I'm here in Ho Chi Minh City right now staying in a rented room and this is where I spend a good part of every year.

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.

The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord, " Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.

GMO herbicide-tolerant crops have led to a 527 million pound increase in herbicide use in the U.S. between 1996 and 2011.