I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.

I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.