We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.