I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.