A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

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

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

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

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.