In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

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.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

I never told my love vocally still.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.