Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

I found my voice in books.

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.