Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.