I am pretty controlled I have to say.

I am a creature of habit.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

I feel sexy in my jeans and wearing my boyfriend's T-shirt.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Happiness often sneaks through doors you didn't even know were open

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.