On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.
Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.
As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.
I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love.
When you're a kid that's spent all your pocket money buying Spider-Man comics, and then as an adult, you're in the Marvel Universe, and you get to meet Stan Lee - it's wonderful.
Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.
Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
