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 mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

I would say about 90 per cent of drunken idiots in comedy clubs wear ties, particularly in London where I work most of the time.