Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.

Live in your dreams, not your past.

I am always positive, prosperous-minded and filled with self-confidence.

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.