Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

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.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.