I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.