Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

I don't very often read novels.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

My father was very big on marriage.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.