Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man’s life.

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

If you work on network TV, they want to pick your casts, dictate your story and how your show works. It just becomes creativity by committee, which is never good.

Your tribe is out there, you just have to find them.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.