I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.