I'm a BIG Bob Dylan FAN. I'm also a BLUES GEEK.

Weather MEANS more when you have a GARDEN. There's nothing like listening to a shower and THINKING how it is soaking in AROUND your green BEANS.

CELEBRITIES are not necessarily the RICHEST PEOPLE of all, but on the FACE of it, they SEEM to be representative of the very richest people.

FASHION is what you adopt when you don't KNOW who you are.

SOMETIMES PEOPLE ask, 'If you'd never had a READER, would you CARRY on writing?' No.

I'm TERRIBLE with TITLES.

Between FINISHING emails, loading the fridge, unloading the dishwasher, getting our son to eat his CHICKEN nuggets and my DOG to swallow her pill, it takes approximately 32 days for my husband and I to complete a discussion and 46 to wrap up a fight.

While households that MAKE ANYWHERE from $48,000 to $250,000 can call themselves middle CLASS, to group such a WIDE range of incomes under one label, as politicians love to do, is to confuse the term entirely.

I don't WRITE for an audience, I don't think WHETHER my BOOK will SELL, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

EDUCATION is the MOVEMENT from DARKNESS to LIGHT.

No, if there is an ASPECT of the EXECUTIVE branch of the GOVERNMENT that NEEDS looking at, I'm LIABLE to be called in to look at it. But I'm not the only one.

That's the THING with animated FILMS - I often feel that puppets GET the better parts COMPARED to us normal actresses.

I went to college THINKING of MAYBE pursuing a CAREER in film CRITICISM.

Those who are critical of ALLIANCE are the same people who have DONE nothing for 30 YEARS.

The CHINESE model calls for giving your KIDS very little choice - and I've come to SEE that you can GO too far with that. On the other hand, I also BELIEVE that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.