Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

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.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

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'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

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