I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight of a man's hip, because dear God, someone might think of sex. And while we all hope our kids grow up to have sex, we do not hope they grow up to shoot someone in the face.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.