I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

The world is difficult and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can’t help but think, You just haven’t taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

People come up to me all the time in New York. Not for autographs, but to talk about movies, often in a very scientific way.

I always wait until a jury has spoken before I anticipate what they will do.

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.