My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

I don't very often read novels.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.