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.

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.

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat

Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.

I'd like to see a slasher movie set in the depression.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.