But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

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

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.