If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

It doesn't matter what your name is!

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.