I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

Anything is possible.""You really believe that?""It's what the great love stories are about, right?Beating the odds.

So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? —Beneath the scalpel of nature and art, Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself, Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.("The Sixth Sense")

LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise, then Loved one must be the inspiration!

The experience of this sweet life.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives filled

So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.