This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.