Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.

I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed.

I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.