Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Life is eternal game, there are no rules. Indulge yourself.

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Appreciate success and status thy will bestow.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

We advise others better than ourselves.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.