I'm not Gore Vidal or William Buckley.

In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star WARS,' I had the FREEDOM to GO beyond the ORIGINAL script and add asides, soliloquys and even NEW scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.

A large and growing body of ACADEMIC RESEARCH suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a STRICT index approach. Some of that research has been RECOGNIZED with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013.

I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for JUSTICE O'Connor the NEXT YEAR.

William Faulkner, Muriel SPARK, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, ALICE Munro. They're very DIFFERENT writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common THREAD, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the FIRST place.

I DISCOVERED JOHN Fante when I was 17 YEARS OLD - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

William and I FEEL that EVERY child deserves to be supported through DIFFICULT times in their LIVES.

In our community here in Boston, we have had a TREMENDOUS influx of RUSSIAN Jews and Haitians. We CALL these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and JOHN Carver came.

I - and, I suspect, millions of Americans LIKE me, Republicans and DEMOCRATS ALIKE - couldn't care less about Obama's MIDDLE name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue.

I stopped MODELING so I COULD go to DRAMA school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

I was influenced by people LIKE DAVID Fincher and William Friedkin, and these DIRECTORS who KINDA paint their films with these dark shades.

My FIRST PAID role was my first JOB out of DRAMA school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV SHOW. I played Ethel.

I am a CLOSE friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, KNOWN for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in REAL LIFE, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, MAKING their WAY across the West, were warned by American INDIAN tribes of grizzly bears' AWESOME strength.

When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a FRENCH singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same THING for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal MUSIC playing in the BEAUTIFUL rooms with so much history caused a lot of LAUGHTER.