I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

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.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.