“I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.”

“And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.”

“Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children... It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“None of this makes any sense.""I'm beginning to think I should make that the title of my autobiography.”

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.”