No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tu….

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."].

It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just kee….

The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists….

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a m….

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit..

It was a salad bar of phobias.

There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, ….

Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked in ….

Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just shrunk up - un….

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions..

It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative an….

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies..

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole..

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways..

There's not enough of me left over..

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that..

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be….

Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You'….

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to any….

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emot….