Quotes About Vulnerability

It is one thing to go through a divorce, and quite another to have the rug ripped out from under you in a very publicly humiliating way.

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

I think publicly declaring that mistakes are a part of how we grow and how we heal is absolutely necessary.

When you go through things publicly, there's no hiding.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

I feel like every single time I've published a book, there's some little light in me that goes out. I've seen the way people can misunderstand or misinterpret things, if not maliciously, then without a lot of sensitivity.

When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it.

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

I always felt very insecure financially as a child. I was desperate to understand money as a child. I was desperate to be secure. Because I always felt like the rug could be pulled from under me.

What I really like about stand-up is there's 100 people in a room, and you can just feel the pulse. It's very human.

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

The heavyweight division is dangerous because one punch can end everything.

You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

I think some fighters, when they throw a punch and throw everything they have, and it doesn't affect the other person, it might crush them a bit.

They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever - I don't care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.

Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I have the purest intent when it comes to love. But it doesn't always work out that way. That's the truth. But you know, it's still pretty fun when you're in the moment.