By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation.

…he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.

Hee that lives well is learned enough.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.