Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

We are not living in the land of the living and going to the land of the dying, but rather, we are living in the land of the dying and going to the land of the living.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.'

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.