If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true.
I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.
Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This
Time-wasting dominoes
The Yankees were playing my hometown Red Sox on TV and I lost my cool at a guy who was loudly dissing them. I yelled, Derek Jeter is baseball’s Hitler! This was in New York City. In a room full of Jew...
Almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair. I
Will (now renamed Trouble Don’t Pick Up in my phone) came to L.A. with the president and asked me to dinner.
There was no whimsical ‘sip of wine at Thanksgiving’ for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the count...
There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.
That's the one nice thing about being a dork about men: you can sometimes play it off as restrained and classy.
THEY KIDNAP AND MURDER MY HUSBAND ON OUR HONEYMOON My new husband and I are vacationing in Buenos Aires.
Nobody wants to hear that any aspect of my awesome life is bad. I get that. But there are days, maybe two or three times a year, when I get completely overwhelmed by my job and go to my office, lie on...
No, that is boring. If people want to see medical stuff they should watch ER.
Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?
If you’re reading this, you’re probably a woman. Or perhaps you’re a gay man getting a present for your even gayer friend. Maybe you accidentally bought this thinking it was the Malala book.
I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on...
I also began to have a pretty disturbing attitude toward eating. I developed a real superiority complex to people who ate actual food. I realized that this is how fashion editors at women’s magazines...
However, you should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?
Don’t be closer to twice a friend’s weight than to her actual weight, I told myself.
You take your mentoring where you can find it, even if it's not being offered to you.