I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop dreaming of me

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

I think for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me.

O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

Casting is storytelling.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you.

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.