When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.