It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.