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

And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

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