If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.