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.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle