don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.