When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.