A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

... and her name was Freedom.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

Trust is something that happens within people only when it is created between people.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.

Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.