I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

Trans people deserve something vital they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

Come on and eat with him. I promise, I won't let him kiss you again.