I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.