There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.