My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.

I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.

You would think that they would have tried to throw it inside a little more, being that [Wilson] is 6-foot-5. We played tough on her, we did a few things to try to mix her up a little bit, but I thought that they definitely were going to try to work it inside some more.

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.