I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

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

I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it.

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

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.