I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.