Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.

I am, beneath everything else, a fan. I was fixed in this mode as a young boy and am awed by people who take the risks of performance.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.