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I do not think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who do get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it is like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It is funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, Okay, let's experience that. You just have to just go with it because it is rare.

Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it is going to collapse on his head.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that is where it kind of is funny.

Funny, I do not feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Sometimes laughing is not the best judge of what's funny, cause I think there is a lot of things that are really funny that do not make you laugh, that do not make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

I am always in situations where you can not be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

It is a funny thing about me. I do not have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

I was not even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

I did not grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

I think if they put a laugh track on Intervention, it would be funny.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I have ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the Girlfriend in a Coma is, like, really funny.