I think people always thought I was more of a Guido than I am.

It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

I had - in my early 20s and late teens, I had adopted this idea that I was the future face. And that was in large part due to this Time Magazine cover from 1993 that proclaimed the future face of...

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

Things like putting around a list and having your name on a list that objectifies you, that's a big deal, and it can have big consequences.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd...

For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.

I'm bisexual.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I...

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

I was born in India... Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't...

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my...

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating...

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

We aren't cool and never will be.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.