My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary sloppy reflection of who I am.
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so...
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its...
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch...
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use...
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up and you don't want...
I usually write away from home in coffee shops on trains on planes in...
Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been...
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...