New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.

Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.

The authentic answer is always the question’s vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?