I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

What a glorious God?

Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet.... Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

My 80s were the best years of my life!

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment

Does my eye look okay to you?

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.