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

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

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

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