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

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

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.

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.

And the roads called us to take the walk.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

A number of the pundits said well, if a couple of the other candidates drop out, if you add their scores together they don't understand that as they drop out, we'll get the votes.

If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.