Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.