A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.
I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
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.