If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.