"Failure is not fun - It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse."

"I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."