People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.

I like a good challenge. And I like to feel that I'm always learning something new.

If someone loves sweet things and constantly eats angel´s hair tartlets should this be diagnosed as having some sort of heavenly trichotillomania?

Nobody will outwork, out-train or out-will me !

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.