I was completely shattered. I couldn't think clearly. When something like that happens to you, you are in an extraordinary mental situation. I wanted to take my own life, because my world had been destroyed. I wanted to end my life with the car.

It's devastating to see ... all the buildings that have fallen down, to see people's lives completely shattered, to see a tent next to a house that was there,

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

When something like Sept. 11 or Pearl Harbor happens, it undermines people's taken for granted assumptions that day to day, things will be safe. Massive, really tragic disasters really do, over time, change the national psyche.

It will be an extraordinary moment in the first confidential conference when a legendary figure like William Rehnquist is replaced at the head of the table by someone so junior. But John Roberts is one of the few people who would be up to that challenge.

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'