Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.