Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.

I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.