For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.

There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.

What you allow you encourage.