Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that w….

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along..

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 excep….

My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing h….

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

It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in….

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

it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why..

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, co….

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

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 oth….

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself..

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, wit….

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

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities….

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would eve….

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..

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me..

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

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives.….

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them..