I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it.

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.