Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

There are so many women who I deal with, on a daily basis, that I don't feel like I've ever been stymied or struggled because I'm a woman.

As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.