The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.