A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon.

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

Next to an old-fashioned church social, or possibly a monster bridge party, there is no buzz which can equal the sibilant buzz ofa matinée.

I have always been "Hacky Wacky" which is my lingo for HAPPY! I refuse to allow my obesity to control me.

But in a story I can steal her soul.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.