I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.
One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an endlessly interesting way to have the experience of writing memoir.
I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.