I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

something is always falling apart in me.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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.