"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

"There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it."

"The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind."

"Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?"