Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

She shuddered. “What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.

Love is not the absence of logicbut logic examined and recalculatedheated and curved to fitinside the contours of the heart

I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

Hope is the seed of happiness.

I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.