Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.

No one's tried to stab me. That's cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.

It doesn't matter what you think!

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.