I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when it's rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.