Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

There is no fundamental truth and there's nothing to be connected to: I just believe that [LSD] makes you feel better.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.