The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.

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