Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.