It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.