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.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

You drove a dagger through my back, Elena. It hurt.

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

It's all about mechanics; all the weight-lifting in the world can't help you if you're not running correctly.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris