Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced.

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.

I was slumped next to him. He didn't pay any attention to me, but kept snickering as he drove. It was annoying. I had PMS and a test this morning. Boy, had he picked the wrong girl.

Never admit that your back goes out more than you do

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.