[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

I was early in my career and didn't understand that people were looking at me and critiquing me yet.

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

But don't ever call her ex-boyfriends by his name.

People need to be happy, and if a song makes them happy, that's cool.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

I hate these people, the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere, for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.