The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.
No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.
Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.
The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a song, it's because they were excited and geared up about the show.