Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.