If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race...
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then...
A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills.
I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've...
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was...
