The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

I can't imagine a pain more all-encompassing than losing a child.

I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.