Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.