It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am n….

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was mor….

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something..

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees..

The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired rea….

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life..

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls..

Badass is a juvenile aspiration..

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?.