I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things — like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day — that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.