“I was a total nerd growing up. I’d rather sit home and read a novel on New Year’s Eve and say, ‘Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!’ That was my idea of a big time.”

I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

I’m a light comedienne, that’s really where I live the most often.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

There’s a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn’t much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

You’ll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.

If fathers aren’t growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.