All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.

Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.