The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.

What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?