Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

My worst expectations never happened.

You would think that with shorter days and less light, people would be more depressed. But it has the opposite effect on suicide.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.