I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

Life and values do run in cycles.