If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

The Brady family was what everyone wanted their family to be like.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.