I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.