So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

I don't think anything is the opposite of love.