It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.

You don’t look like anyone special at all, ” I tell him. And I curse him. And I start a club to hate him. And I make a magic spell to get rid of him.

The thing I've learned is that thinking is not writing.

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.

It's hard, omigod remember? Being a kid.

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed.

I belong here, I tell Toy. I'm hungry for every city block. Every brick building. Every crowded intersection. Electric. I feel brand new.

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

You're likable enough, Hillary.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.