I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

You can start your day over anytime.

With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.