Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

We have a lot of kids in our community and we have five children of our own, and we want the kids to have a safe place to play.

The children fell in love with the first hamster we had. When it passed away, the kids cried and screamed. So I got another hamster. When it passed away, I called my husband, and said we need a hamster now.

All the kids you see here are good kids - they're just not thinking. My daughters fell into this trap. They had the reaction of all kids when I asked them what would they think if a 40-year-old guy was looking at these pictures.