People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.