I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

The way he said it, with a twinkle in his already too-twinkly blue eyes, made Aimee feel twinkly, too.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.