You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.

No one cares how long you kept yourself virgin and how loyal you are, everyone is looking for a hole to play with.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

These are the times for which we were born.

Only bad writers think they're good.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.