I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

Anybody that believes that Adrian Grenier's name is really Vince should probably watch less TV.

Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.