So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

You know what they say, ' Suz had texted. 'Once you go geek, you never go back.

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

Even though I like looking good - don't get me wrong - but if I don't want to, I don't have to.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.