If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

I grew up in a Navy family.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.