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

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 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 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.

To love God is to keep his commandment.

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.