Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

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.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.