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.

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

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.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.