"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."

Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz"? Is that rude?