"History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory."

“You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.”

“What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”

“Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.”

“Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.”

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

“I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.”

“It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.”

“I like you just the way I am.”

Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, St. Martin's Press