If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Being grounded in your lifelong culture and your personal perspective, you are comfortable with the way you see things and may believe it is the best and only way.

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.

I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me.

I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.

I would say that, apart from being a writer, I have also always been very conscious of the idea of a 'world elsewhere'.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.