Whatever it is that makes you the person you are - that's what I love. All of it.

I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It’s not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

How quickly the dead faded into each other,

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.

Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.