We kind of deny the stages of life.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.