There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case the temperature goes down to 55 degrees.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.