What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

It's possible, without taking sides or playing the statesman game, to reduce destruction simply by reducing the development of technology of destruction.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.