History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

Different times need different types of leadership.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.