Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.

...for she soars with the wildest hyperbole when not tagging after the most pedestrian dictum.

Direct experience is the only way.

Some say pain is the greatest motivator. . . I say it's love.

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

And of Kanye's [West]? I have to say [I love] his heart. And I've always loved his legs.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.