In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Confidence is everything in this business.
I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about.
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.