It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone takes. You don't have to fight snakes or wake up in a strange apartment to have a story; it's about what goes on inside your mind and soul.

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I love snakes.

People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.

We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

I think snakes are misunderstood. Everyone is scared of them. I can really relate to them.

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

We shared the same fears as kids - snakes and clowns. Now we also have more adult fears, like television critics.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

I was lucky enough to be surrounded by all sorts of animals from a very young age. My sister Jo was much more into the domestic animals - horses and things. I was absolutely fixated on the blackbirds, and the grass snakes in the manure heap and everything that surrounded us.

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.