After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

Almost instantly [after my announcement of Parkinson's], I saw the first couple of days the coverage was about, you know, "Fox's Parkinson's, blah, blah, blah." Then, two days after that, I saw the coverage turn. It started to become, "Can young people get Parkinson's?" All of a sudden, the conversation turned to become about that. And that was one of the first eye-opening things.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

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.

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.