Lena Dunham

“My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.”

“It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.”

“I love flawed female characters, duking it out.”

“I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.”

“I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.”

“I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.”

“I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.”

“I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.”

“I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.”

“I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.”

“You are mad to be spending the summer in the country, where the days are too quiet and you have so much time to think. In the city you live on Broadway, where the noise is so thick your scary thoughts can't get a word in edgewise. But here in the county, there is only space. On the stone bridge by the stream. On the mossy rock at the edge of the yard. Behind the abandoned trailer where Art, the old man with the glass eye, used to live. Space, space, space, and you can scare yourself into thinking your thoughts are more like voices.”

“My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.”

“I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.”

“I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say "too much information" when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.”

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

“I'm glad if my work can make a difference.”

“I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.”

“I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.”

“I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.”

“I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.”