Women are wired to take on others’ needs. Own your role in stress, establishing boundaries on what you can reasonably accomplish within your current bandwidth and reduce your stress load.

You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.

With a grin, I told her, "I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

I've gone through hell and back.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

I do some eccentric dancing.