Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.