Only the nerds will save the earth.

I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

I know nothing about letting go.

My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.