The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

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.

None should say : 'I can trust, ' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Praying for revival equates to blaming God for the condition of your local church.

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen. You see an éclair in the receptacle... and you think to yourself: "What the hell, I'll just eat some trash."

Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

Even the police have an unlisted number.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.