A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold...

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.