I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, Can't you make it campier? So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

Joan Rivers is a very wise lady. We're good friends, and I find her very much an inspiration as to how to conduct your life, and how to remain very youthful, with ambitions and dreams. Anyway, she always says that she says yes to everything, because you never know which thing will click, or be thrilling.

I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like Fear of Flying, where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?

I saw Follies again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.