I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do too. And even if they don't find it beautiful I hope they're just glad that something like it is happening on TV.

Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.

Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.