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

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

God is a God of Lovingkindness.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we know how bittersweet, how fragile is the truth. We will always need legal divorce just as an emergency escape hatch is crucial in every submarine. No sense, however, in denying that after every divorce someone will be running like a cat, tin cans tied to its tail: spooked and slowed down.

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.