Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Age is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.