Motivation is what gets you started, but persistence is the only thing that guarantees your success.

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

Is there any holy beings like human beings?

It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game, A game so wickedly played, I am at your command in your wicked games.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx!

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!