I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

How about not equating death with stopping?

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.