Now I Say I'm A Diarist With

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.

I Was Born Imagining Myself With An Apron On, With Pies Cooling On The Window Sill And Babies Crying Upstairs. I Thought That All That Stuff Would Somehow Anchor Me To The Planet, That It Was The Weight I Needed To Keep From Just Flying Off Into Space.

You're Not Surprised When Alcoholics Act Like Alcoholics. It's More Surprising When Non-alcoholics Start Acting Like Alcoholics.

The Message About Sex And Relationships That She Had Gotten As A Child... Was Confused, Contradictory. Sex Was For Men, And Marriage, Like Lifeboats, Was For Women And Children.

Nobody Wants To Read About A Good-looking Happy Person.