It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off.

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

I was with a real jerk after the first heartbreak, and once I did the prerequisite eating an entire cake and singing "All By Myself" in the shower, I realized that people treat you badly when you let them, and that I had to respect myself and not let anyone else treat me that way again. If someone really loves you, they are your biggest champion, not your biggest detractor.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you.