It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

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

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

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