“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”

“You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.”

“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.”

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”

“A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.”

“Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.”

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”