Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.