Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.