I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.'
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.
Honestly, I'm living my fantasy. It's being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.
Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell into it and loved it. There was no reason not to - it was a great career.
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
