My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

There are a few things that tend to infuriate me. One is ignorance, because I have become accustomed to speaking to very intelligent people like Gore Vidal and Al Franken on a regular basis, since dating Bill Maher.