I know what people want to hear is the connection with the son, Roger, when you have a child. I would love to tell that there was an epiphany as to what it is to be a mom, but I didn't feel any difference there.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

I get cold - really cold - when I travel.

The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.