I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

Today is a season for tomorrow's harvest

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The cost of leadership is self-interest.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.