This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

People think they have the right to judge everything that I do.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

I'm scared of the geese. When I was five, my mom took me down there to feed those horrible beasts and one of them nearly took my hand off.

There is music the moment you start listening.

Is there plenty of celebration in your life? How about your spiritual life? Is it an exercise in following rules and practices? Or does it look more like a joyous celebration?

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

My health is important, so I learn everything I can about nutrition.