It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.

Wear clothes that make you feel happy.

The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice or Kids' Choice awards, but not the Oscars or the Emmys.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it.