Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.