I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.

The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

He wanted the show to be fresh to audiences 50 years down the line.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

In general, things either work out or they don’t, and if they don’t, you figure out something else, a plan B. There’s nothing wrong with plan B.

Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.

It wasn't work. I played myself.

Why is it amazing that I don’t act my age? Why should I act my age? Or more to the point, how is someone my age supposed to act? Old age is part fact, part state of mind, part luck, and wholly something best left for other people to ponder, not you or me. Why waste your time? I don’t.

..why sit on the sidelines of life at any age?

We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.