I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

Your initiations are worthwhile.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.