If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

You can make yourself happy.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

You can become something you don't want to become, but it's a change, a new phase. Hopefully one you want.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.

All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.

If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.

I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

No money changed hands, of course.

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.