I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.