Diablo Cody: Why So Modest?

“Now, I’m hardly the cutest columnist to occupy this space, but I had no idea I resembled a tubercular Friar Tuck with sperm for eyebrows.� —Diablo Cody, who’s at least as cute as EW’s other back-page columnist, Stephen King [EW]

“Well, my family’s in the co-op. My wife would kill me if she couldn’t get her organic food.� —Chad L. Coleman, better known as Cutty on The Wire, on working shifts at the Park Slope Food Co-op [NYT]

“Those lips, I love them. I would like to have lips like that. Then I wouldn’t have worked on my fucking personality. Excuse me, my personality.� —Diane Keaton, dropping an F-bomb while complimenting Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America [TVNewser/Mediabistro]

“We started music together because we wanted to bring about the apocalypse, and we realized we didn’t finish.� —Marilyn Manson on reuniting with guitarist Twiggy Ramirez [Rolling Stone]

“There are no mistakes of any kind on this album.� —Stephin Merritt on the new Magnetic Fields album, Distortion [NYO]