My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.