I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

I'm pregnant with triplets now and I feel really good.

You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

When you have passion, you don't need coffee.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of political forces play a roll.

Wars are not won by evacuations.