一个女人能为她的孩子做的最重要的事情就是爱他们的父亲。

Not all of us can afford to be romantic.

After the storm, the sky is clearer.

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

"Sometimes the hardest stories to write are the ones closest to your heart."