I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood bec...
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in...
Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic id...
So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.
Luckily, I was not born a white man.**This has never before been said in the history of humanity.
If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped ex...
I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, bu...
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you...
I’m pretty happy with the way I look, so long as I don’t break a beach chair.
As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I’m recovering from tuberculosis.
My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like...
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Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not?I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't. It would be th...
It's just that, the truth is, I have never, ever, ever met a highly confident and successful person who is not what a movie would call a workaholic. We can't have it both ways, and children should kno...
I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.
I don’t read them; I just hit accept. iTunes may own my ovaries, for all I know.
I always wanted the reboot of Ghostbusters to be four girl-ghostbusters.
Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.
I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would...