I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

In Thailand and Malaysia, trained pig-tailed macaques are used to harvest coconuts. In fact, there are still training schools for these monkeys in parts of the countries and each year competitions are held to find the fastest harvester.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.