Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.

a car is just a moving, giant handbag! You never have actually to carry groceries, or dry cleaning, or anything! You can have five pairs of shoes with you at all times!

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.