"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."

"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that."

"I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age."

"The paradox of freedom is that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"The paradox of freedom is that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come."