People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

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.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain