Sean Wilsey quotes:

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful.

It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

My parents created their own war.