I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.
I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.
It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.
My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it's what saves me from wild digressions.
There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.
I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That's why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.
If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.
I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
