"Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore."

"For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness."

"As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'"

"It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends."

"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."

"Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about."

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."