I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.