It's OK to tell your partner to objectify you. That's part of the fun of having a partner.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

Define your path and travel on this path.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living...

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.