I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

Planning gives you the opportunity to identify the tasks that will add the most value to attaining your outcomes.

And whatsoever ye do do it heartily.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.

In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.