I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day our body just doesn't even exist at all! It's just a vessel I've been given to move through this life. I think about my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all and end all of my existence. Which sounds like I spent a week at a meditation retreat, but it's genuinely how I feel.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.