I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none. When asked what I made of blogs like my own, blogs written by parents about their children, I said, 'A blog like this is narcissism in its most obscene flowering.'

The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle of overprivileged white people is not my idea of a good time. That's not going to happen.

I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

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

I love my husband more than I love my children.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture.