Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.