When you see them laying there, it's more along the lines that they're asleep and all you have to is touch them and they'll wake up. But when you see them being put in the ground . . . it makes you feel like you could have been there to do something.

We were walking along the Carson River, and I was on the lookout for rocks when I saw it laying there near the river.

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

I'm sure each one of you share my horror and disbelief over devastation along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I urge each one of you to place a bid, as much as you can afford for this worthwhile cause.

It was 8:30 a.m. and I was still asleep when the hospital at UC Davis called. They had a liver for me and I needed to be in Sacramento by 4 p.m. We just grabbed stuff and ran — I don't even remember much of the trip, except that my phone was ringing off the hook.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.