Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to EXPLAIN these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us LAY folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands CREDIT default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps MR. Buffett and the computers who created them.

As a researcher, EVERY once in a while you ENCOUNTER SOMETHING a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the WORLD around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.

I SURPRISE myself that I'm not dead in the GUTTER SOMEWHERE, surprised that I haven't GIVEN up.

If London is a WATERCOLOR, NEW YORK is an OIL painting.

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of CRAZY, UNBELIEVABLE stuff that's all completely TRUE. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto ANOTHER.

If we TOOK Chaucer's writings at FACE VALUE, we'd have to conclude he was a COMPLETE DRIP.

A FILM's SUCCESS or FAILURE is strictly on the DIRECTOR's SHOULDERS.

I spend some of my time BROODING about people who seem addicted to double STANDARDS - those who take an allegedly principled STAND on a Monday, then SWITCH firmly to the opposite PRINCIPLE on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

I'm basically a movie ACTOR now, and my BIG roles are MOSTLY horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I TRY to get BACK into television.

Another INSPIRATION that has helped me GET through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as BAD as his, but I believe in staying motivated and KEEPING as FIT as you can.