"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths."

"I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear."

"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."

"Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle."

"I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes."

"It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people."

"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."