The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

I got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

All American consumers have the same needs - to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.