“I still love to eat, and my diet isn't perfect.”

“Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.”

“My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.”

“I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).”

“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”

“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”

“I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.”

“It is funny what a year can do.”