You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.