In high school and college, I was an athlete.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.