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.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

Dream big but think small.

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.