What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top I want it on the side and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it's real if it's out of a can then nothing.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.