It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.