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.

I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

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 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, 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.

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the screaming.” “Ian,” Bones drew out warningly. He grinned. “You’re right. I was aroused anyway.

It's not that I don't like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.