I'm afraid of the general things that everyone is afraid of: a bump in the night that could be a cat or Death dragging his sickle across the room; losing my health; becoming homeless, never meeting George Clooney.

I don't understand people who say they're bored. Look out your window.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.