L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

People love stories. They need stories.

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

I'm a very independent woman.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.