Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Forgiveness reveals the ultimate beauty of life.

We can all agree that children are ugly.

The devil doesn't care about your age when he wants to destroy you, neither does God when He is about to save you.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, in the band, I would say.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.