As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

There are so many women who I deal with, on a daily basis, that I don't feel like I've ever been stymied or struggled because I'm a woman.

the currency of the future will be memory

No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand. Divided, we fall.

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

Because of 'Lost,' particularly, J.J. Abrams's fans are all over his stuff.

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.