Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

A blind man can see how much I love you

they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song.