This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

I rarely see my family; my older brother, Peter, has twins - I was not there on the day of their birth or for any of their birthdays.

You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.

My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.