I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day.