Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will.

When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.

The idea of the industrial fishing affects everyone. Those factory ships play this game of hit and run with the international fishing limits, and somebody said it's like hunting squirrels with a bulldozer. They pull everything in and they are only looking for certain types of fish and everything else dies and they just throw it back. It's like chumming.

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.