Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

Let's go with what you have to get what you want.

If you can endure anything, you can become anything.

In the space between waves, we have the choice. To jump, to dive, to ride, to play. To face what's coming without running away.

Fashion sells education is sold.

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

America is a very divided country now. Not only are there red states and blue states, there are now red facts and blue facts. The right-wing believe in creationism. The left in evolution.

[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.

Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you!

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.