Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

We are made for the same home and power that raised Christ from the dead.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.

And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.