Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I have been accused of never saying no.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.