It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

I hate losing. I hate getting beat. Im not used to it.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Im pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.

Your gift is not what you do but what you really are

Happiness is action.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.

If the veins in the back of your legs look like the street map of greater Pittsburgh, you ain't nobody's babydoll.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

They are again in the dirt in the desert.