"Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, …"

"Stare at me in this faceless way, go mad with desire, and rip my clothes off. It's terrific. In my sex fantasy, nobod…"

"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from wh…"

"Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy."

"Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease."

"[Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole action movie part of it might as w…"

"I moved into directing for a couple of reasons. ... Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the scree…"

"The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've a…"

"I was so tired of seeing these stupid, cheerful books about ageing. One of them even has this whole thing in it about…"

"Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, …"