All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer, I wrote an article about it for GQ. Disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the East Village [of New York City], where we used to set the bar on fire to get customers away from us, and said, "That's a great movie for kids!" They made the fantastic Coyote Ugly movie, now legendary.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

God is an experience of supreme love.