writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

As for superpower: I wish I could eat a million pastries and not gain weight. I wish I were Pastry Woman.

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.