I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.