You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
After 911, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that. . . " "Everythings going to be alright.
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
Don't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.
One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.
Trust is the ultimate human currency.