It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations.

If you want to know what a person is truly made of, don't rush to define them until you meet them and see the principles they live by.

My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.

I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.