What my day is like depends on where I am.
On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day.
Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
You're never too fat for a new purse.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first draft will come out at 200 pages. I think and think and I go, "um this story is about the brother that appears on page 178. " I go back and I rewrite.
If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.
What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school. " He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.
We live in very, very, very dangerous times.
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 911 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.