I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.