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'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.

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

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.

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.

I will drive the world crazywith love poems for you.So they can know how magnificent you areand how crazy I am.

God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

It looks like a galosh with electronics in it.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.