I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.

My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the wood stove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.

Scientology is weird because it's new.

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.