The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.