I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

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

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

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

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