I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.