As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

I never learned to read music.

I write in American slang.