Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.