I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

I live in New York and it's the greatest city, but sometimes I want to move to the place with the porch and the lemonade and the farm.

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

I feel like the ideal length is three months. I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.

I've never played anybody like a cop before.

It is a great joy to work for what you want.

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).