successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.