I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening. When women find the right person, on the other hand, they just... disappear for six months, then resurface, eyes shiny, and usually about six pounds heavier.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.