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.

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.