When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.