"I know how to do anything, I'm a mom."

"Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?"

"My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel."

"A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego."

"I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others."

"I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well."

"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."

"I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas."