Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.