It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.