A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.