I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.

May we all be blessed with the knowledge of the Most Ancient of DaysThat we may realise we are all one in existenceAnd in that awareness may we find peace...

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

The law is above the law, you know.

I am a very pragmatic person.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter. But you learn as you go, I suppose.

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.