The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

A library is chamber of treasures.

Finding peace within, to find peace all throughout

It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

Release from fear, worry, and doubt leaves us free to function normally, healthfully, and confidently.

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage

Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.