You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.

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.