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 a lot that I intend to do in this life.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

I come out of real life.