Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

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

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

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

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.