I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.