Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

Familiarity breeds content.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

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

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.