We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.
I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.
Algeria keeps me awake at night. What about you?
The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
I have wondered about time all my life.
I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.
I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
I take about 12 weeks to get ready for a show. But I train all year round.
There's just something awesome about going all-out for 20 seconds and then stopping and getting to guzzle Pedialyte.
Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008.
A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.
Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.
My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.
