I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

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

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.

The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

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

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.