If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.