We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.