“When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected ...” — Anderson Cooper Quote

“When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.”

“My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.”

“Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.”

“I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.”

“I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.”

“I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.”