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.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.