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.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

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

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.