When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.