It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

The only time he cries is if he’s hungry. We all have nipples. I don’t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I can’t get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

A wedding is such a girl thing.

My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

I'm pretty much a loner and I've lived under the radar.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. With a two-by-four? Only as a last resort and never in public.

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.