The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.