Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real, Unless you find the fine line...and erase it

The heart is resilient and forgiving, it is the mind that causes us stress.

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.