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I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.
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I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.
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I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.
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My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.
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The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.
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All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
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Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.
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Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.
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Meg Ryan was nice [ in When Harry Met Sally] ... the writing was good ... but it was really kind of a boy's club, I mean, there was Bruno Kirby, Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal - talk about your testosterone trio!
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
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The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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Drugs made me feel more normal.
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If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.