When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.