I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place - and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.