We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

I did an episode of 'Law & Order,' where I literally didn't move my neck because I thought you couldn't move your head on camera.

When I draw defenders into the lane, it's easy for me to kick it out.

I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares...

You just can't get surprised when you get surprised, because weird stuff just comes over the transom all the time, and it's not necessarily anything that you've planned for or anticipated.

Primary voters can get confused between candidates whose ideology is very similar, so they look to the party elders.

SoulCycle - When I'm stressed or feeling down, it always turns me around.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons....

I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out...

You put Carlos Molina in front of me? That's kind of disrespectful to me.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

Look, there's no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

I really love 'Real Housewives.' It's like the, you know, comedy stuff that's, like, intentionally funny. Like, I love 'Nathan for You,' that Comedy Central show. It's just brilliant. My friend Bill...

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to...

I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky,...

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

I think it is very unfortunate that there is a ban on adoptions in Russia.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak for everyone.

What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were, like, ten or twelve test cooks. And whenever anybody finished something, they would yell, 'Taste!' and...

I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.