"Nails that stick out get hammered down."
Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors The Dead
"...do not deny who you are. There will always be someone looking to beat you down. Don't do their job for them."
Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors The Dead
"If you can't laugh at yourself, you are so fucked."
Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair
"Grief reigns in the kingdom of loss. I refer to not only the loss of a loved one but also the loss of a hope, a dream, or love itself. It seems we don't finish grieving, but merely finish for now; we process it in layers."
Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair
"You can survive the unimaginable."
Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair
"Once you start picking and choosing what is relevant in a life, you edge closer to picking and choosing what lives are relevant."
Stephen Spotswood, Secrets Typed in Blood
"The world often defines women by the worst thing that's ever happened to us. It won't let us be otherwise."
Stephen Spotswood, Secrets Typed in Blood
"Do not postpone happiness."
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy talks addiction, art, and his favorite life lessons