We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever have to hangout with anybody else.

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the definition of 'feminist' when it's already the definition of 'silly'?

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally — and sometimes maddeningly — who we are.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.