"I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke."

"You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation."

"To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose."

"Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."