Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

The what is so much more important than how.

The climb will go. Get rid of the rope. It's only distracting you.

There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.