I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And painting...
I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I nev...
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are i...
Bad's the best of us.
I'm not a big traveller.
I was a daddy's girl.
I'm on a search for the truth.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Cheapness is a great virtue.
An index is a great leveller.
When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.
There is such a thing as bad publicity.
I do not have OCD OCD OCD.
Christianity is such a silly religion.
I was a closet stutterer.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
It's not easy to define poetry.
Hugging is not my shtick.
I tend to be reactionary.
The war against terrorism is terrorism.
Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.
