"It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust."

"I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic."

"I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque."

"I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures."

"Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat."

"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."

"I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."