Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.

My mom is a little bit eccentric. I mean, she does - she has a lot of unique ideas. For example, she thought that I should have a child with her last husband, Richard, because it would have nice eyes.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.