I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

The space genre is timeless.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.'

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.