They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.