You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?