Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.