Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person be generous of spirit be the person you'd admire.

Change is a slow process. Keep going toward your goals. When you feel like giving up, remember how good it will feel to change your life into the wonderful life you have imagined.

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot of money so it really galls me to write quickly for free.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.