I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.