The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

You can never have too much, butter.

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

There are times with your friends when you just have to put their whole mess out of your mind for a while.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

Slaves of wisdom are masters of many.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

I will do everything that is required in order to bring immigration down to a level that is manageable, that the public believe is right.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.