As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

I'm a somewhat isolated person in my own way, or I move along a little trail, I go this place, I go that place. It's not like I'm varying my exposure.

To write about a place, you have to live there.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

Low-volatility funds, which tend to smooth out performance, have been especially popular since the financial crisis. The PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Fund is the oldest, begun in 2011.

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.