We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.