Everyone needs something from me.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.