People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.