Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.

You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

Sow the seeds of love, kindness and peace.

To be confident is to act in faith.

I want to be a professional.

Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Liminal sucks. You can't grasp it with your hands and shape it. You can't make midnight come faster, or grow up sooner, or avoid the in-betweens. You can only hang in there, and get through them.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.