I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together.

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

You always want your friends to like who you're seeing.

I will repeat history over and over. I'm one of those girls where I would just rather beat it into the ground than go through the rest of my life wondering how it would have worked out.

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!

I never thought of myself as a writer but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.