My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?