Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

I thought Hillary Clinton was remarkably elegant and intelligent and focusing on the issues even though her opponent was trying to bring the talk always to vulgar, low levels. Even his presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.