Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward..

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and….

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed o….

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface o….

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it..

I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-hai….

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping..

Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to….

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions….

You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet….

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would….

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in..

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alco….

Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is tak….

Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch you….

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, b….

Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful? Yes, it's….

As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they str….

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic..

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics..

I'm always prepared for the worst..