When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass. . . They're way, way close.
Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.
Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.
No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.
Had Hillary Clinton taken [Bill Clinton's advice], I think she could have mitigated her losses but I still think [Donald] Trump would have won.
Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.
One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in their literary lives, getting prizes and awards and the better teaching gigs, women tend to sort of drop away.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Trust God in the dark until the light returns.