“I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been readin...” — Mary Karr Quote

“I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.”

“I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.”

“The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.”

“All my life I wanted to be WWE champion, so when I won that, that was great.”

“All my life I have apparently been tying my shoelaces wrong, there is a much more mathematically beautiful way of doing it, that I was shown by Bill Nye - with Neil deGrasse Tyson looking on.”

“I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.”