It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.