Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

People love stories. They need stories.

Thank God, my name isn’t in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand

The Smile for some is an expression of joy, but for others it's a whole world of hope.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden