Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common people. Mr. Bubble was for my so-called brother, their true child. I was a Vanderbilt. I should bathe in condiments and seasonings.

I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.