I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mediocrity is underrated.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

My mother is a beauty.

...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

With the whole Mark of Cain thing, does that mean if I accidentally kick you during the night, I get kicked in the shins seven times by an invisible force?

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?