Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned

I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.

I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become

Cleverness is not wisdom.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

I was a young lad when I was growing up.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?