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

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.