Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.

Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, "The redder the lips, the better the tips," and that was like the only advice she gave me.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.