Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I had trained myself to read pieces like that and silently say to myself, 'See how lucky you are?' But it had been gnawing at the inside, that part that didn't fit, that I never let myself even think about. After all, wasn't it a worse kind of guilt to be with your child and to know that you wanted to be anywhere but there?

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

something is always falling apart in me.