Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.