All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.
With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
