Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

All autobiography is fiction.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past that was more of a horror story than a fairytale.

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Your health is not outside of you.

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

In marriage, you must have trust and love