The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

The Lord is a great provider.

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That's what happened.

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.