If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

My mother is an extraordinary woman, extraordinary.

Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

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

What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.