I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

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