On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.
If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
I've never worried about age.
In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
I want to age with some dignity.
I've aged, but grown up? No.
Hope is not a matter of age.
Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
Each day, I choose my age.
Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.
I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
