I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

My mother's life was way too heavy for me.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

There is nothing perfect...only life.