Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

I don't want to be somebody else.

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.