Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

Happiness is not the absence of problems

I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

"Jem?" he said. "Is it you, James?" "Who else?" Jem's voice.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

We're not out holding fundraisers in the Hamptons or in Beverly Hills.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.