I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

Hope begins in the dark.