Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.