I am a very nonspiritual person.

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

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

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

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.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.