I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.