As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.