I'm super shy, especially at parties.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

I’ve made it my mission to discover that which is off the beaten track. Somewhere in the undergrowth of the impossible.

I love Shirley Maclaine, love that woman.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

I love with the heart not the eyes.

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.