I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.