Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span we need to increase our health span at the same time.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?