Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

When my friends and family call me Josie, it feels like I'm being seen. It's something everyone wants, to feel understood.

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.