People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.