In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am Spike Lee's wife from Hell. I'm white and weird and I won't pay enough attention to him. If he does any more of those angry interviews, I'm going to write him and see if he wants the wife he deserves.

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

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were sick or something, you'd find someone a bit more fey.

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.