Politics is a contact sport.
I have faith in human beings. I struggle with that faith.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.
Pity is a corroding thing.
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.