I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.