That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.