I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.

The difference is that was then, this is now.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.