I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.

Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

I still have room to improve ... there are things I could do better.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.