I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

My dad died of a stroke.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.