There is kind of a secret society to it. I've loved the records for so long, I forget that to the world at large they're not so well known.

It was a great experience. You're sort of warned against meeting your idols, but I don't take that too seriously. I'm glad to have the view of him -- or anybody -- enlarged or enriched.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.