The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.