I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

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.

Friendship among men is always part war, something learned from childhood.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

[In 2007] People's relationship with a brand is becoming a dialog, not a monolog.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.