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 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 feel like my home is stage acting.

Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.

With a common ground, solution of problems is easy.

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.