We haven't slept together. But we've napped

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.