What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.