The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.