I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.