If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.
I love shopping for guys! A watch is a fantastic gift idea - an oversized, stainless steel version with links is classic and cool.
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
