Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.'

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

I had to get back to work... NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

Your initiations are worthwhile.