It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

We shouldn't have free speech.

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.