If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

hope springs eternal, even in the heart of a fat girl.

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.