I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

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