In 2003, I Almost Died

I Find Myself Going To Places Where I Really Have No Business, Speaking To These People In A Whole Other Field That I Have No Extensive Knowledge Of. But I Do It Very Often Because It Scares Me.

Life Is Meaningless Unless You Bring Meaning To It; ... It Is Up To Us To Create Our Own Existence. Unless You Do Something, Unless You Make Something It's As Though You Aren't There.

For A While In My Teens, I Was Sure I Had It. It Was About Getting To Heaven. If Heaven Existed And Lasted Forever, Then A Mere Lifetime Spent Scrupulously Following Orders Was A Small Investment For An Infinite Payoff. One Day, Though, I Realized I Was No Longer A Believer, And Realizing That, I Couldn't Go Back.

In 2003, I Almost Died Of An Intestinal Blockage When I Was On A Mountain In Chile, Filming A Segment For 'scientific American Frontiers.'

There Are Two Things That I Get A Lot Of Pleasure From In My Life, And That Is, Doing What I Know How To Do Well - That Really Makes Me Happy. The Other One, And Probably An Equal Pleasure, Is Finding Out How I Can Be Helpful And Then Really Being Helpful.