I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of sh….

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president..

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was b….

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd..

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!.

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are..

In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs….

I'm a very conceptual writer..

Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes..

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone..

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

I'd rather work to live than live to work..

I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I thi….

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid..

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter..

We're endangered by our own success..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:J….

I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through ….

I think that after a while you realize that your husband can't be all things to you and certainly you don't want the kids to be all things to you, be….