Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else. '
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.