I always think of Meryl Streep for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

Generally someone will eventually tell you that you have to do something to help yourself.

Still, the word boyfriend starts to sound pathetic after age 30.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

My grandparents were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.