They can't do the work of grieving because their reflex thinking goes to the motive and meaning. You could argue that it's a human impulse. From the families' perspective, it has to be dealt with.

You are scared beyond words. You actually come to believe that you are going to die. If you go through that and then have small acts of kindness, little by little you find yourself feeling an enormous sense of gratitude.

It's too soon to tell.

Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about.

If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

I don't want anybody thinking I do not want to recognize anybody for their accomplishments, ... That is not what I want to do.