I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

World is getting stranger and stranger... I think there is interesting perspective in the series "Falling Water".

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined.

I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me.