If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father and his brothers and sisters and his mother are all people who would sit around with a Tom Collins and tell stories that seemed to get better and better each time they told them.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.