The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

She affected me, even when she was absent.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion, in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.

A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

I am not perfect. I just think that imperfections are beautiful.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.