For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.