In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"

If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"

The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!

Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

A love letter lost in the mail, forgotten, miss delivered and then discovered years later and received by the intended is romantic. A love letter ending up in someone's spam filter is just annoying.

Imagine what the world might have been like if Larry and Sergey instead became professors or took a job at Microsoft.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk