I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.