Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.

With suicide, it's a strange thing in Japanese culture. It's acceptable. My parents would have been devastated if my attempt had been successful, but they would have somehow accepted it.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

Oh, I don't know about that, Jericho. See, when it comes to the bedroom, The Game always came up a little bit... short.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?