The older we get the less afraid we are.

I'm going to quit writing.

My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.