I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.