Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.