If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

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 intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

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

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling