game as much as he loved life. >> martha: thank you very much, good to have you with us today. so, my next guest recently wrote of charles, "he had a singular presence there, a towering intellect, free of arrogance. here now, editor and a dear friend of charles, ab, i thought your call and that you wrote about him was so beautiful and one that he would be very, very proud of. the opening line just struck me so deeply. he once told me, the way i look at life, it is all an accident. everything. >> i can remember that moment. it was so searing, martha, as you can imagine. charles was looking up at me from his wheelchair. he had been in it since the age of 22. we were already good friends and we had all of those deep conversations that the general just described and brit in all of your guest. by the ones that you have had