Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

I am gripped by an existential panic.

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.