I do believe that food lobbies exert enormous, at times insidious, power over what we eat, that our water supplies are not being protected as much as they probably should be and that, in general, people are more interested in smart phones than museums.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.