Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions!

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.