I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.