The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

I never quit my job until I had my next job.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to not get pregnant. But they don't really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women.