It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. --

Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.

The present is an eternal now.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.