When you consider America, there are hundreds of millions of people who have smoked marijuana illegally.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

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

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

It's incredibly important to me that my children don't put anything in their bodies that they haven't tested first - that's how you end up dying.

I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.