There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.