It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.