Sometimes if something scares me, I lean right into it . I’m not a brave person— I’m more of a fearless idiot.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Social Media= Business. Period.

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.