The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.