If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

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

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

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.

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.'

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