The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

I worked because I could control it.

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.